Mafia III VGA Graphics Performance Benchmark review

We take a look at Mafia 3 for the PC in our tech minded way of graphics performance articles. We'll test the game on the PC platform relative towards graphics card performance with the latest AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers. Multiple graphics cards are being tested and benchmarked. We have a look at performance with the newest graphics cards and technologies.

Posted on: 10/09/2016 11:48 AM
Marketing ppl at Nvidia are geniuses labelling their cards: GTX 1080 is THE GPU to play "optimized" games like QB or Mafia III on PC at REAL 1080/60 (no upscaling, no FPS cap).

vavyn
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 11:52 AM
Last gen gtx is taking a beating here.

CronoGraal
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 11:54 AM
6 years and this is what we get from the devs.

Singleton99
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 12:05 PM
Well i just would like to thank Hilbert for this review and saving me my cash , as i now won't be buying Mafia 3 anytime soon .

WHAT 1080 56fps OMG come on this just isn't right at all , the game must be so poorly optimized ,, its a joke , years of developing and they push out this turd.

Deragot
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 12:11 PM
Great and detailed review as always.
Aaaand we found this year's crapiest port, so we can hopefully relax now. The suspense who is going to crap the bed the most was killing me.
The devs deserve all the refunds they can get.

zer0_c0ol
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 12:13 PM
Okay I have to say it.. What in the actual F....

Posted on: 10/09/2016 02:26 PM
One more game "optimized" by nvidia.
It is clear that this is one of the ways they are trying to hurt competition, no SLI no Crossfire, so that only their best GPU can get acceptable frame-rate.
You need 1300Euros GPU if you want to play new game with old generation graphics.

Almost 2017 and we still have new AAA games on DX11, why? Nvidia knows that they are better at DX11.
Consoles are not hurting PC games, nvidia is.
So yeah, go ahead and buy their products and their sponsored games.

Undying
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 02:27 PM
With the new 1.01 Patch in effect we are free from 30 FPS caps, yes it is time to look at Mafia III, the Guru3D way. Multiple graphics cards are being tested and bench-marked with the latest cards suc...

Posted on: 10/09/2016 02:48 PM
Ah the 380X was tagged as 34 FPS where it is 24. Fixed thanks.

millibyte
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 03:15 PM
If your game only runs over 60 fps on a $1200 card at a lowly 1080p resolution, it deserves to fail on the platform. I hope pc gamers are refunding this en masse, this is just disgraceful.

Stormyandcold
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 03:19 PM
One more game "optimized" by nvidia.
It is clear that this is one of the ways they are trying to hurt competition, no SLI no Crossfire, so that only their best GPU can get acceptable frame-rate.
You need 1300Euros GPU if you want to play new game with old generation graphics.

Almost 2017 and we still have new AAA games on DX11, why? Nvidia knows that they are better at DX11.
Consoles are not hurting PC games, nvidia is.
So yeah, go ahead and buy their products and their sponsored games.

BS. This is completely on the devs totally f**king-up big time. Mafia 3 isn't even being advertised by Nvidia, certainly not a front-page game like GOW4.

If anything, this game is developed with AMD console hardware in-mind, so, the abysmal performance is down to optimisations on crappy AMD hardware with those optimisations not translating to PC, not even on AMD cards.

This game is the new Quantum Break as far as performance goes with what looks like "drag n drop" porting.

sammarbella
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 03:26 PM
We should expect game dev to release a new PC patch and advertising it as performance "optimization": downgrading the already mediocre graphics via settings tricks to reach 60 fps on almost all GPUs.

exzeth
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 03:27 PM
Haha.. GTA V did it better.

Toli001
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 03:31 PM
BS. This is completely on the devs totally f**king-up big time. Mafia 3 isn't even being advertised by Nvidia, certainly not a front-page game like GOW4.

If anything, this game is developed with AMD console hardware in-mind, so, the abysmal performance is down to optimisations on crappy AMD hardware with those optimisations not translating to PC, not even on AMD cards.

This game is the new Quantum Break as far as performance goes with what looks like "drag n drop" porting.

From Hilbert's review: "In all fairness, this is an Nvidia optimized title much like AMD has a lot of AMD optimized ones."

MainFrame Alpha
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 03:50 PM
Thank you Hilbert for the time and effort.
sadly can't say the same about 2K and Hangar 13

Xuanzang
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 03:52 PM
I wish everyone who bought this unfinished game would ask for a refund. Bad console porting like we see here, downgraded graphics in other ports so the console gamers won't feel left out. (Oh Hello Ubisoft) etc etc. If this continues pc gaming will die.

No pc gamer should have to put up with this sh*t. Make a statement.

Stormyandcold
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Posted on: 10/09/2016 04:18 PM

From Hilbert's review: "In all fairness, this is an Nvidia optimized title much like AMD has a lot of AMD optimized ones."

M3 is not an Nvidia title like GOW4. It might work best on Nvidia, but, for such a title, that's not saying much.